Length: 17.2km (10.7 miles) or 19.2km (11.9 miles) T=2.13 5 out of 10 The varying distance is a choice at the end of the main walk.
Shorter option: 11km (6.8 miles) - normal morning but finishing very soon after lunch
"Two quite big hill climbs, otherwise fairly gentle".
"This walk explores the lovely ridges and valleys leading eastwards from Guildford - the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It starts with a short steep climb out of Guildford which leads straight to the dramatic viewpoint of Pewley Down. Then it joins the North Downs Way to climb to the hilltop church of St Martha-on-the-Hill. From there the route passes through follows the Pilgrims Way along the foot of the Downs to lunch in the pretty village of Shere. Climbing up onto the downland again and following first a wooded section and then a more open one, it finally descends to the valley again where you have a choice of two village tea rooms and a riverside pub to refresh you at the end of your walk.
This is a good walk at any time of year, with the sandy soils around St Martha's Hill providing a relief from mud in winter"
If you enjoyed this walk, you might like to continue it on Sunday, doing the extension to Box Hill......
Trains: Get the 0930 (Woking 0955) Portsmouth harbour train to Guildford arriving 1005. The earlier 0924 stops at Clapham 0931, arriving 0959. Return trains from Gomshall Buy an all routes return to Gomshall. Trains from Gomshall are a bit limited. 17.21 via a change in Guildford to Waterloo and 17.31 via a change in Redhill to London Bridge. The next train is 1921 via Guildford.
Lunch: In Shere, The White Horse pub (tel 01483 202518), 9.2km (5.7 miles) into the walk is a Chef & Brewer pub. Forty metres up the road is the William Bray (01483 202044, It serves food all afternoon daily. A cafe option is The Dabbling Duck, or Hilly's Tea Shop.
Tea: The Compasses Inn and the Gomshall Mill (reopened in December according to the website)
1 comment:
In the end there were n=12 at the White Horse. At the start there were 8 joined later by a car driver walking from Shere. At the efficient pub 3 more rolled in but only for a general fragmentation afterwards. One had a picnic and was heading to Box Hill. Two of us carried on after lunch, ending up doing the shorter ending to get the 1520, getting the third heavy shower of the day.
W=mostly_dry_with_short_showers. A bit slippery with some mud, but not too bad.
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